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Building the Developer's Dream Keyboard

Posted by Soulskill on from the where's-the-button-that-finds-the-missing-semi-colon dept.

New submitter mondalaci writes: This article is about building the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard step by step, starting with an Arduino. Lots of pictures and nerd talk included. It's a mechanical keyboard that can split down the middle and re-merge, and it has four layers of keymappings to keep the design compact. It will support custom keymaps as well. They're planning to release the firmware and design files under the GPLv3, and they're working on repair instructions, too.

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  1. Gee, what a coincidence by smooth+wombat · · Score: 5, Funny

    This keyboard seems to have already filled this role.

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    1. Re:Gee, what a coincidence by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The design actually looks awful for programmers and people who do a lot of non-document typing.

      This isn't "the ultimate developer's keyboard".

      This is a vanity project by one guy to create his ultimate keyboard.

      It's kinda cool, kinda neat, and definitely geeky.

      But it's entirely about the build, and nothing to do with what makes a good keyboard.

      So I applaud him, but I have precisely zero interest in the extra buttons and stuff he's got.

      I would say he's made a terrible keyboard, but a cool DIY thing. He probably thinks it's awesome.

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